alstry (< 20)

IT'S TIME FOR WORLD WAR 3

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In a Specialized Industrial Economy...when people don't have enough currency to obtain basic Food and Fuel....their only choice for survival is to resort to violence absent being given basic needs.

As Benny Bin Bernanke's printing the dollar has caused Food and Fuel prices to skyrocket over the past year....more and more around the world simply do not have enough currency to buy Food and Fuel....

now rioting is spreading from Spain....to Greece.....to Egypt......to Tunisia...........to China......Iraq, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan......and now even the U.S.

As technology eliminates jobs faster than the Industrial Age can replace them....more and more are struggling globally.

Governments around the world are running out of options to keep their people calm.....and when a government has a choice between fighting its own people or starting a fight with an outside enemey...the latter is always the easier path for politicans to retain their power.

The problem with this situation is it is global.

Technology is replacing tens of millions of jobs and humanity is not willing to make the necessary volutary adustments....so the natural consequence in periods like this is fight....and in this case, since we are dealing with the most abrupt universal structural change in human history...expect this to be the BIGGEST war in human history.

It is simply what happens when a world refuses to take their eyes off the obsolete bankrupt ticker and dying Industrial System to make the necessary structural changes to make its system sustainable.

So it's a fact that it currently costs $120,000 a year to keep someone in jail. Using your own estimate, we could send three youths off to war for the price of one inmate. And if the Government is simply printing money, the sky's the limit.

Ask any tenured professor pulling down over $150,000 a year with gilded lifetime benefits, a thinning of the herd (bah, bah, bah) is cheaper than educating the unwashed hoi polloi. And their classes would be oh so much more attentive.

We've given your idea a real shot in Europe and its produced true, egalitarian Socialists that stay in $3,000 a night NYC hotel rooms only to rape devote Muslims.

So it's a fact that it currently costs $120,000 a year to keep someone in jail.

Umm – not sure what planet you got your facts are from as you did not link them – but I found (in about 2 seconds of searching):

It costs an average of $23,876 to imprison someone in 2005, the most recent year for which figures were available. But state spending varies widely, from $45,000 a year in Rhode Island to $13,000 in Louisiana.

We've given your idea a real shot in Europe and its produced true, egalitarian Socialists that stay in $3,000 a night NYC hotel rooms only to rape devote Muslims.

So, let me summarize your argument – we are going to say no to higher education because your facts are off by about 80% . Then, we are going to judge an entire continent by the lack of virtue of one person.

So the $150K/year for higher education teachers that you quote... Come on - quit make up statistics. Next time you may want to type in “G-O-O-G-L-E” or if you own some MSFT try “B-I-N-G” before you throw some numbers out there… Just saying…

We are in a paradigm shift....a change in human functioning. In the end, a dollar is simply a unit to obtain anothers production.

In the new system, we will also have some sort of unit, I am just not sure what exactly it will be.....

But if a war erupts as I currently think is the most likely, it will trigger force majeure provisions in most contracts and void the agreements universally.

Consequently, we will be forced to void or to restructure almost every contract in existence. Do you really think contracts mattered in Iraq after Saddam fell?

In the end, humanity is moving to a digital and more sustainable platform.....and it is a direction which will be convulsive but inevitably good for man in the long run.

That said, I am not a tree hugger by nature....I used to own a Hummer.....but a pragmatist by character. And now I am comfortable that this is the trend we are heading to and war may be the easiest path to get humanity to a sustainable platform.

Tonight I smoked a couple cigars and enjoyed them a lot....going forward, this may not be possible....if this is the cost of a sustainable existence to push man forward, so be it......

150 years ago I would have been a farmer/store owner with no running water, no central air or heat, and no internet to communicate with....going forward the advances will be even greater....but to achieve such an environment the changes will be convulsive....and it appears war is the path chosen as too few will be willing to make the necessary changes voluntarily.

I'll leave Sempai's criminal justice figures to speak for themselves. Here in the land of Schwartznegger's girly men, it cost in excess of $120,000 a year to keep someone in jail. As to higher education . . .

Uki, again, your outdated figures simply speak to "full-time faculty," not TENURED PROFESSORS from real UNIVERSITIES. A first year professor at Cal State Fullerton can be expected to be laid-off with 10-12 grad students lining up for his/her job. A full TENURED PROFESSOR with life-time benefits at a real reputable university makes $150K plus and they'd have to pull a DSK rape to ever get fired.

Reality sucks as do tenured professors and politicians who find it convenient to send off the fodder.

I'm missing some rioting here in the US over food? Where is this? I did a search and all I could find was the daily show making fun of Fox News for making a claim that it was going to happen because of the sky rocketing food costs (they said they went up .05 over the last 6 months). Nothing about actual riots.

Oshiri - Uki, again, your outdated figures simply speak to "full-time faculty," not TENURED PROFESSORS from real UNIVERSITIES. A first year professor at Cal State Fullerton can be expected to be laid-off with 10-12 grad students lining up for his/her job. A full TENURED PROFESSOR with life-time benefits at a real reputable university makes $150K plus - Well maybe some will make $150k a year as tenured but you have to be in the right field at the right school. As somebody that has several family members at very reputable universities that are tenured I can say that without a doubt being tenured does not mean that you will even make 70k a year, so fields just have way too many people wanting to justify such a salary.

Cost to keep adult person in prison in California$43,149 a year (and yes, that includes medical) - Well if you would stop feeding them such premium cuts, cut back on the celebrity chefs appearances and have them use 400 count sheets and not the 800 you could drop that some. :p